E53 Georg Hildebrand, Senior Research Engineer at Zalando

Today's guest is Georg Hildebrand, Senior Research Engineer at Zalando in Berlin. Georg has several years of experience in data science and scientific computing and is currently building the next generation of Zalando's machine learning platform. The goal is to enable and democratize machine learning for almost all employees and business processes.

Zalando believes that their integration of fashion, operations and online technology gives them the capability to deliver a compelling value proposition to both customers and fashion brand partners. Zalando’s shops attract more than 300 million visits per month with over 28 million active customers in 17 markets across Europe.

In the episode, Georg will tell you about:

Zalando’s work in creating infrastructure for machine learning

Advice on how to get started with data science

Prioritising the workload at Zalando

Helping coach and train data science professionals

Challenges of applying AI and Machine Learning

His work within High-Performance Computing